Category Archives: Canadian Press

SAN FRANCISCO - American aviation officials are investigating after an Air Canada flight from Montreal landed on a San Francisco runway after being told not to. Federal Aviation Administration spokesm...

NEW YORK - Sears will no longer sell Whirlpool appliances, ending a business relationship that dates back more than 100 years. In a note sent to its stores last week, Sears said that Whirlpool was mak...

PHOENIX - Paul Weitz, a retired NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and also piloted the Skylab in the early 1970s, has died. He was 85. Weitz died at his ret...

TORONTO - Hudson’s Bay Co. (TSX:HBC) has struck a $1.6 billion deal that will see it sell its flagship Lord & Taylor property and lease out office space in some of its other high-profile loc...

Yet another North Atlantic right whale carcass has been discovered, the sixteenth confirmed death of the endangered species this year. The International Fund for Animal Welfare said Tuesday the carcas...

CHICAGO - Mark Wahlberg says he hopes God will forgive him for his turn as a porn star in the 1997 film “Boogie Nights.” Wahlberg told the Chicago Tribune ahead of an event with Chicago Ca...

BANGKOK - Thailand’s army on Tuesday detained an activist who wrote on Facebook that he would wear politically charged red clothing to mark King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s cremation this week. A...

MADRID - Catalonia’s political leaders plan to bring a legal challenge to prevent the Spanish government from removing them from office and taking over running the region to stop its push for in...

VIENNA - Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz said Tuesday he will try to form a coalition government with the right-wing Freedom Party after winning this month’s election. Both Kurz̵...

OTTAWA - Just hours before Bombardier Inc. was to unveil a dramatic plan to escape its latest crisis, Jerry Dias was summoned to Montreal to meet with Alain Bellemare, the beleaguered firm’s chi...